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Technology report

Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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By ais523

This is a summary of recent technology and site configuration changes that affect the English Wikipedia. Note that not all changes described here are necessarily live as of press time; the English Wikipedia is currently running version 1.44.0-wmf.5 (d64f667), and changes to the software with a version number higher than that will not yet be active. Configuration changes and changes to interface messages, however, become active immediately.

Fixed bugs

Editing a section no longer strips leading whitespace from the start introduction section. (r33314, bug 13728)
Some features of the redirect system were accidentally broken, and then fixed again:
- Redirects to sections were broken. (r33375, bug 13752)
- The history of pages which are redirects, but once were non-redirect pages, was broken. (r33381, bug 13754)
- Database errors could appear when two users viewed the same old redirect at approximately the same time. (r33133, bug 13745)
"Add pages I create to my watchlist" now also watches uploaded images. (r33387, bug 13725)
Transclusions of Special:Newpages no longer incorrectly show a drop-down box. (r33389, bug 13756)
Special:Whatlinkshere now pages properly when filtered to show only a certain type of backlink. (r33607, bug 12793)
The api's list=search no longer incorrectly returns deleted pages. (r33608, bug 13792)

New features

Special:SpecialPages now shows special pages sorted into groups. (r33197, bug 10457)
The api can now query for protection against creation (a 'protected title') as well as the other sorts of protection. (r33473, bug 13768)
Related Changes has a new option to show recent changes on pages that link to the specified page. (r33235)

Ongoing news

Internationalisation has been continuing as normal; help is always appreciated! See mw:Localisation statistics for how complete the translations of languages you know are, and post any updates to bugzilla or use Betawiki.


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